Trickle Down - Bruce Cockburn - Youve Never Seen Everything

It feels weird to be writing that Bruce Cockburn has just issued his 27th album, but that's what You've Never Seen Everything is. It's been a quite a ride since ; the changes lyrically and musically have been enormous, and the world view of I Dont Know - Slum Village - Fantastic / I Dont Know / Players / 2 U 4 U artist -- politically, spiritually, and psychologically -- has evolved consciously and extensively.

But for Cockburnrighteous anger and indignant rage are never the whole picture. Sarah HarmerSam PhillipsEmmylou Harrisand Jackson Browne also help out on the vocal Pomáhať A Chrániť - Ekcelent - Asymetrický Boj, and Cockburn borrowed Tom Waits ' rhythm section of Larry Taylor and Stephen Hodges for balancing the wild musical ride this album is texturally and compositionally.

The title track is among the most forward-thinking and sonically adventurous tracks he's ever recorded. Hand percussion and drum loops are interlaced with minimal piano and harmonica riffs shimmering on the fringes; the long, spoken maybe even preachy word travelog, full of horrific images and expressionistic electronica, gives way to a sung refrain that transcends the lyric but leaves the listener unsettled.

Cockburn seems to be saying -- and this is only this writer's interpretation of a very complex, wondrously intricate, and musically adventurous work -- not to hate those whose actions cause suffering, but to root out the hatred in our own hearts so as not to become them. Action must come from compassion, not merely from anger, or it becomes nothing more than a mirror image of the cause of suffering itself.

It is pointless to place this record in a pecking order with Cockburn 's other work; that it adds to that body of work immeasurably is compliment enough.

However, to say that it is necessary because it can cause self- and world-examination in any listener who plays it through is as high a compliment as can be offered. AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript.

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You've Never Seen Everything is Cockburn's first full-length studio album since his critically acclaimed and JUNO Award winning Breakfast in New Orleans Dinner in Timbuktu. With a career that spans over three decades, countless tours and 27 albums, Cockburn has never stopped reflecting on political and social causes/5(38).
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You’ve Never Seen Everything is Cockburn’s first full-length studio album since his critically acclaimed and JUNO Award winning Breakfast in New Orleans Dinner in Timbuktu. With a career that spans over three decades, countless tours and 27 albums, Cockburn has never stopped reflecting on political and social causes.
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It feels weird to be writing that Bruce Cockburn has just issued his 27th album, but that's what You've Never Seen Everything is. It's been a quite a ride since ; the changes lyrically and musically have been enormous, and the world view of the artist -- politically, spiritually, and psychologically -- has evolved consciously and extensively.9/
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